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Game of Thrones

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MissFoodie · 21/03/2012 12:06

After much deliberation on a previous thread, I started the 1st book, even though I've seen the tv series - well, thank god, otherwise I wouldn't be able to keep up with who's who, it's impossible with all these names...!
So far, it's exactly like the tv series so I am skimming
Bring on book 2

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MissFoodie · 22/03/2012 16:20

god, dont say that, I was going to skip it and start reading the 2nd one and everyone told me not to, that I had to read the 1st even if I'd seen the tv series........!

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bunnybing · 22/03/2012 13:32

I read the 1st book (after watching the series), but didn't find i got any more from it than i did the TV series, so I gave up. I found the bits that were really good in the series were good in the book, but there is a lot of extra historical waffle that I could do without.

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MissFoodie · 22/03/2012 10:02

it doesn't help that they've all got convoluted names....am glad I watched the series first, at least I can more or less remember who's who by their description!

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PomBearWithAnOFRS · 22/03/2012 07:31

I read these as they came out, and have the most recent one here but haven't started it yet. I enjoyed them as I read, but simply couldn't keep a lot of the characters straight in my head. Now I find that I can't remember enough plot details to get the most out of the new one, but can remember too much plot to want to read them all again Confused
It's just a bit too epic. DH has just got the box set of series one on dvd though so I might watch those and then tackle the new book. He halved the characters for the previous one, and this one is the other half apparently, so it might be ok.